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Steps to generate an Invoice for a Placeholder

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Learn how to generate a standalone Invoice for a single Placeholder

If you have received a request through from a customer to have an Invoice raised for their Placeholder booking outside of your normal Invoicing process, or just need a one-off Invoice for a specific Placeholder, you can use the Mini Invoice Generator from the Placeholders DataGrid to produce an invoice just for this Placeholder!

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Follow this page to learn the steps to generate an Invoice for a single Delegate.


🔍 Find the Placeholder

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The first step is to find the Placeholder so that you can generate their Invoice

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  1. Depending on whether your Delegate is assigned to a Classroom Course, Webinar Course, eLearning Course, or Document Course open the relevant CourseDataGrid from the main menu

    Main menu Course class option

  2. If the Course was Classroom or Webinar, find the Course the Placeholder is assigned to by applying filters and/or searching the Courses DataGrid

    Course Class Datagrid

  3. Right-click on the Course the Placeholder is assigned to attended, this will show you the context menu options for this Course

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  4. Click on the ‘Placeholders’ context menu option

    Placeholder option in context menu

  5. You will be taken to the Placeholders DataGrid, which will show you the Placeholders assigned to this Course only

    Placeholder datagrid

  6. From the Placeholders DataGrid, identify the Placeholder(s) that you need to generate an Invoice for

    placeholder selected



(blue star) Generate the Invoice

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The main step in this process is to complete the mini Invoice Generator for this Placeholder

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  1. Select the Placeholder(s) that you would like to generate an Invoice for by checking the checkbox in their row

    Placeholder selected in placeholder datagrid

  2. Click the down arrow button next to the select-all checkbox, and then click the ‘Generate Invoice’ option

    Generate Invoice menu option

  3. This will open the mini ‘Generate Invoice’ pop-up window

    Generate Invoice menu

  4. Select how you would like to group your items together on your Invoices

    Booking drop down
    1. Booking - an Invoice will be generated for each unique booking per customer

    2. Course - an Invoice will be generated for each Course a customer has booked

    3. Course Template - an Invoice will be generated for each Course Template a customer has booked

    4. Invoice Target - an Invoice will be generated per customer

  5. If you would like to define a Due Date to be applied to each Invoice generated, check the ‘Manually Set Due Date’ option and enter this date into the Due Date option
    If you do not define a due date, your invoice terms dates will determine the Invoices' due dates

    manually set date tick box

  6. If you would like to include any Course Fees in your generated Invoices, check the ‘Include Fees’ box
    Please note, this option relates to Course Fees not Placeholder Cancellation or Transfer Fees

    include fees tick box

  7. Click ‘Generate’ to complete the process and generate your Invoices

    generate button

  8. This will generate temporary Invoice(s) for your selected Placeholders
    This will mean that your Placeholder’s Invoice will not yet had a Reference and it will have the status of ‘Temporary’

    Placeholders datagrid

    1. If you do not yet have visibility of the ‘Invoice Reference' in your Placeholders DataGrid, click on the 'Change Columns’ button at the top right of the DataGrid results

      new column button

       

    2. Use the ‘+' button to add the ‘Related Invoice Reference’ column in and click on the 'Apply’ button

      new column pop out

       

    3. You will now see the Invoice information for each Placeholder, within your Placeholders DataGrid!


✅ Commit the Invoice

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The final step is to check over the Invoice and then commit it!

Check your Invoice

This step will show you how to view your Invoice to check it’s contents

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  1. From your Placeholders DataGrid, click on the ‘No Reference Set’ link in the ‘Related Invoice Reference’ column and select ‘View in Invoice DataGrid’

    view in invoice datagrid menu option

  2. This will open the Invoices DataGrid, filtered to only show you the Invoice that this Placeholder is on

    Invoice Datgrid

  3. Right-click on the Invoice to view the context menu options available for it

    Invoice Datagrid with context menu

     

  4. Click on the ‘View’ context menu option

    View option selected

     

  5. This will take you to a view of the Invoice

    Invoice view

     

  6. Review the contents
    If there are any issues with the Invoice, you can make adjustments to it before it is committed in the next step

  7. Click the ‘Invoices’ breadcrumb link at the top of the page to return to the Invoices DataGrid for this Placeholder

    Invoice breadcrumb trail


Edit your Invoice

This is an optional step which will walk you through how you can correct the Invoice if any of it is incorrect, before it is committed

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  1. If you need to correct the Invoice Date, the Invoice Due Date, or the value of the Invoice Items on an Invoice, right-click on the Invoice from the Invoices DataGrid to view the context menu options for this Invoice

    Invoices datagrid edit menu option

     

  2. Click on the ‘Edit’ context menu option

    edit option

     

  3. This will take you to the Invoice editor

    Invoice preview option

  1. Update the Invoice Date and Due Date at the top-right of the Invoice

    Invoice dates

  2. Update the values of Invoice Items
    Please note - we do not recommend adding additional items onto your Invoice as this can cause issues with reporting at a later stage

  3. Click the ‘Save’ button to complete your changes to this temporary Invoice

    Save button

Commit your Invoice

This step will walk you through the process of committing your Invoice, once your Invoice has been committed this typically triggers Workflow emails to the customers to share the details of the Invoices with them.

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  1. To commit your Invoice, right-click on it from the Invoices DataGrid to view the context menu options for this Invoice

    Commit option selected

     

  2. Click on the ‘Commit’ context menu option

    commit button

  1. You will be presented with a confirmation pop-up, click the ‘Yes’ button to confirm

    confirmation pop up box

  2. Your Invoice will have an assigned Invoice Reference and it’s status will no longer be temporary